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Mr. Nobody Against Putin takes an urgent look at Russian indoctrination; Spare My Bones, Coyote! finds horrors at the U.S. border; Eight Postcards From Utopia runs weird commercials from free-market Romania; and more
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In Have You Heard Judi Singh?, Vancouver director interweaves archival footage, re-created moments, and mesmerizing music in tribute to late Punjabi-Black artist
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Montreal filmmaker Denis Côté started out making a portrait of a shy BDSM worker and ended up capturing a generation’s encounter with the endless recursions of social media
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In NFB documentary, Lyana Patrick chronicles the environmental harm caused by the Kenney Dam
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A panel discussion with workers and community advocates takes place after the VIFF Centre screening
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New paraDOXA initiative will highlight experimental films like To Use a Mountain
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In Aisha’s Story, a Palestinian matriarch uses food for generational healing, while Saints and Warriors follows a Haida basketball team
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Yintah captures Wet’suwet’en pipeline resistance, while La Laguna del Soldado conjures the sounds and mists of a fraught Colombia
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Wouldn’t Make It Any Other Way named best short, while Kamay takes Elevate prize
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Eternal You, A Man Imagined, Black Box Diaries, nanekawâsis, and other intriguing offerings at the celebration of new nonfiction film
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New DOXA Documentary Film Festival feature tells the incredible story of the Armstrong company, and how spending childhood summers there inspired McNeil’s own art-making
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Filmmaker Shannon Walsh turns her lens on a labyrinthian fantasy world and an all-consuming love that transcends death
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Documentary film shares the story of Jacob Beaton, who is training Indigenous people to grow their own food
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Shannon Walsh’s Adrianne & the Castle (2023) opens the festival’s screenings at the Vancouver Playhouse on May 4
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Running May 2 to 12, fest also features nanekawâsis, Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story, Tea Creek, and Caravan Farm Theatre doc The Originals
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King Coal, We Will Not Fade Away, and Notes on Displacement among the titles honoured
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Notes from Sean Horlor and Steve J. Adams’s Satan Wants You, plus We Will Not Fade Away, You Were My First Boyfriend, and Kite Zo A
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La Singla searches for a lost flamenco star; A Way to B profiles the members of a daring disability-arts troupe; and Cheenee traces the history of Indian diaspora in Trinidad and Tobago
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Director Karen Cho’s new documentary looks at Chinatowns in Vancouver, New York City, Montreal, and beyond confronting development and displacement
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Filmmaker Amy Miller’s dissection of the BC homemade-bomb caper raises questions around democracy
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